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therein contained to be one in every \yay deserving the considera- 

 tion of Government. 



I have also the honor to forward herewith a specimen of a San- 

 tal Head, the execution of which is excellent and highly charac- 

 teristic, and to observe that the cost compared with the value and 

 interest attaching to such a collection is very moderate ; the whole 

 outlay on the 250 heads probably not much exceeding two thou- 

 sand Rupees. 



Extract. 



Our collections are now at Berlin where, with the Court's con- 

 sent, they were brought for being examined and filled up. 



A complete set will then be returned to England ; the rest is to 

 form a special Indian Museum here. As one of the materials 

 which may perhaps be of some special interest to you, I mention 

 our collection of Ethnographical heads about 250, which are made 

 in copper by galvano plastic, and which have been particularly well 

 received by Baron Humboldt. 



If you should find it proper, I would request you to propose to 

 the Government of Madras to order a set for your Museum. 



The Government will take one set of the collection of Ethnogra- 

 phical heads made by Messrs. Schlagentweit, for the Madras Cen- 

 tral Museum, if the Madras Literary Society will obligingly ar- 

 range for getting them out. 



(True Extract and Copies.) 



(Signed) T. Pycroft, . 



Ch ief Secretary. 



"Resolved, that the decision of Government be communicated to 

 the Messrs. Schlagentweit by the Secretary, Mr. Elliot also an- 

 nounced his intention of writing to these gentlemen respecting the 

 arrangements for the transmission of the heads. 



Read letter from Mr. Bayley regretting that he had been unable 

 from indisposition to submit his report on the system proposed by 

 the Messrs. Schlagentweit for rendering the Indian vernaculars 

 into Roman characters which had been referred to him, and sug- 



